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Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

John Dryden

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.

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